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Publication: Arena Magazine
Publication Date: 01-DEC-03 		Format: Online - approximately 981 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
'I think we have it', said chief programmer Da Silva, beaming.

Treasury economist Michael Blake watched transfixed as an aerial view of Melbourne, Blake's home town, appeared on the LCD screen on his desk. The astonishing detail of this digital world was made possible by a level of computer power available to few governments in the world. And as yet only Australia's treasury had developed software enabling the effect of policy settings on a digital economy to be assessed before unleashing them on the real economy.

Blake pressed ENTER and, smiling, scrolled through familiar streetscapes. This would make the Treasurer smile too: a thicket of cranes; airport and docks abuzz; marinas crammed. Zooming-in revealed throngs of well-dressed consumers lugging expensive retail purchases along footpaths as gleaming cars hummed down immaculate thoroughfares past cafes overflowing with clientele. After four years of work and numerous dead ends, it...

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